“This exciting relationship with Yotpo offers the marketing and shipping tools that SMB customers need to quickly, cost-effectively and smartly propel their operations forward,” said Michele Peters, senior manager of UPS Global eCommerce marketing. “UPS works diligently to give businesses of all sizes the choice, control and convenience required to compete in every level of today’s rapidly changing and increasingly competitive landscape.”
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MSC Industrial Supply will invest more in ecommerce, CEO says
MSC Industrial Supply Co., a major distributor of metalworking and other industrial supplies, is working through market changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to an unusual 11.4% year-over-year decline in ecommerce sales for its fiscal quarter ended May 30.
The decline, reversing the year-to-year increases MSC has typically recorded in recent years, was "primarily related to the higher volume of safety and janitorial products not transacting through our ecommerce platforms," MSC says in a document it made available today.
How to Design an Ecommerce Website That Converts - Business 2 Community
If you feel stuck in a rut with your website design , then it's time to consider ways to look at it through a different lens. Website design is about more than choosing the right color scheme and font; you also need to create an aesthetic experience that matches your branding.
When visitors come to your website, you need to establish who you are as a brand and what your purpose is. That's difficult to do if you don't have a clear vision of what your brand is about.
Industrial Real Estate Outlook Post-Pandemic is Strong, Thanks to Ecommerce (BOMA 2020)
One of the biggest factors altering industrial real estate has been the prevalence of e-commerce, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, according to James Breeze, senior director and global head of industrial and logistics research for CBRE.
In the 2020 Virtual BOMA International Conference & Expo session titled "U.S. Industrial Post-COVID Review and Outlook," Breeze explored the ways in which the coronavirus pandemic has affected the outlook of industrial real estate.
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Elderly consumers set to drive eCommerce market post-crisis - Essential Retail
The older generation (aged 65+) are likely to be major drivers of eCommerce growth in the short to medium-term, according to a new study by Mintel .
This surprising finding is due to a variety of factors: ongoing concern over exposure to Covid-19, getting accustomed to online shopping during lockdown and the ability to make more discretionary purchases than younger people post-crisis.
The survey of 2,000 internet users aged 16+ revealed there has been a huge shift to digital spending by those aged 65+ in recent months. Mintel found that 43% of those in this age group have shopped more online since the start of the crisis, compared to 42% amongst all adults. In comparison, back in May 2019, just 16% of those aged 65+ shopped online at least once a week.
Opinion: The end of eCommerce as we know it
During the 1980s in the United States, towns reaching populations of around 5,000 or more, would find themselves on Walmart's radar, spelling trouble for independent retailers everywhere.
So, when you have a place with a population of 2.6 billion in one place, it's inevitable that a store would open there. And it did, last month, when Facebook Shops launched. But the way it worked couldn't be more different from the Walmart model.
Facebook Shops means that anyone with a physical shop or even just a home business can get into e-commerce, and here's the kicker, they don't have to part with a single penny as commission. Facebook has managed to make Amazon look like a bad deal for a small business looking to go online. And that's no small matter, about half the items sold on Amazon are from small and medium businesses, it's an even bigger proportion for platforms like Lazada and Shopee in Asia.
Ecommerce companies begin process of displaying country of origin as govt pressure mounts -
Facing pressure from the government to comply with the rules to disclose the country of origin on products listed on their platforms, ecommerce companies have started working with sellers to ensure these details are updated.
Ecommerce companies are already mandated to display the country of origin for products listed on the platform, as per the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Amendment Rules, 2017.
COVID-19 Accelerated E-Commerce Growth '4 To 6 Years'
COVID-19 has massively accelerated the growth of e-commerce, according to an Adobe report released today. Total online spending in May hit $82.5 billion, up 77% year-over-year.
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Higher rates of e-commerce and BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) may be the new abnormal , Adobe data indicates.
"We are seeing signs that online purchasing trends formed during the pandemic may see permanent adoption," Taylor Schreiner, Director, Adobe Digital Insights, said in a statement. "While BOPIS was a niche delivery option pre-pandemic, it is fast becoming the delivery method of choice as consumers become more familiar with the ease, convenience and experience."
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